Teachers

Ralf Korn is Professor for Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Control at the Department of Mathematics at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, and Founder of the Financial Mathematics Group at the Fraunhofer Institute ITWM. He has been Head of the German Society for Actuarial and Financial Mathematics (DGVFM) for 8 years (2015-2019; 2021-2025), Board Member of the German Actuarial Society and is an Honorary Member of the Swiss Actuarial Association. His most recent work is focused on Sustainable Investment for Life Insurers, applications of neural networks in finance, insurance and electricity, value preserving portfolio strategies and on mathematical aspects of regulatory issues.

Mark-Oliver Wolf is a PhD student at the Department of Mathematics at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaisers-lautern. He is specialized on the calculation of the Solvency Capital Required for insurance companies, but also on applications of quantum computing in financial mathematics.

Tim Prokosch is a PhD student at the Department of Mathematics at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. He is specialized on computational methods in finance, particularly for portfolio problems with transaction costs.